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...d medical imaging. Thiscombination allows for the direct distal-tip control of catheters which webelieve will improve a clinician's ability to access remote areas of the body,improving diagnostic accuracy and treatment outcomes," said Hogg. "Thisclinical trial is an important step in demonstrating the eff......ironment for students before they facethe risks of direct patient care. The era of -- see one, do one, teach one -- islong past." Data from the study will be used to evaluate steps already taken at UCSF toreduce possible exposures and to guide educators in the next steps to furtherreduce the rate, said Max......ublication with immediate international access,and direct links to other information sources. In this medium, we are notlimited by the need to print, but we can use the entire resources of the web,"said Sade. AAPS is a professional, scientific society of more than 9,000 members employedin academia, industr...Ultrasonography Predicts Heart Attack/Stroke Risk
...ients' risk of heart attack and stroke increasedin direct proportion with the thickness of their artery walls. Those with thethickest arteries had an almost fivefold greater risk of heart attack or strokethan those with the thinnest measures. Even after accounting for standard cardiovascular dis......tid and internal carotid arteries of the neck -- a direct measure ofatherosclerosis (hardening of the arteri...much. The measurement of the carotids is a direct indicator of the risk ofstrokes, since the blood supply for the brain courses primarily through thos...Visual Environment Can Affect Even Healthy Eyes --- Nature Works With Nuture For Good Vision
...odels of eye growth will have to consider both the direct influence of visual input on the growing eye as well as the indirect influence coming from the fellow eye. Collaborators on these studies include Ronald Boothe, Michael Lynn, and Margerete Tigges at the Yerkes Primate Center. Funding suppo...Ablatherm: An Ultrasound Device For Prostate Cancer Therapy
...aldifficulties, leading to its takeover by Edap, a direct competitor. However, thetenacity of the company's director and medical staff, together with activesupport from by INSERM's service de valorisation, saw the Ablatherm projectthrough to fruition, under the auspices of a new company, EDAP Technomed. Coo...Research Into Virtual Environments
...rying to do in the virtual hand lab is make vision direct bylooking directly at the workspace and make the manipulation direct so the handbecomes the input device. Rather than using a mouse you use your finger as apointer." Mac...UB Oral Biologists Find Link Between Gum Disease And Passive Exposure To Tobacco Smoke
...chief researcheron the study. "It is not just the direct effect of nicotine that is harmful."(See editor's note at end of news release for electronic links to previous UBresearch reports on smoking and periodontal disease.) To investigate the relationship between passive smoking and periodontaldisease, Gro...Management Academy To Boost Training For Local, State Public Health Departments
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...er all the lining surfaces," hesaid. "This permits direct contact of very high cancer drug concentrations withremaining cancer cells. Heating is used to increase the effectiveness of thisinteraction." Five-year data show patients undergoing this treatment live longer and have abetter quality of life. ...Managed-Care Systems Could Save By Eliminating Restricted Access To Dermatologists
... appropriate care sooner, if patients were allowed direct access to adermatologist, says Steve Feldman, M.D....very100,000 patients by letting their members have direct access to dermatologists.This figure is based on Medicare reimbursement rates for office visits. Fel...News About Osteoporosis: Fruits And Vegetables Prevent Bone Decay
...is also possible that potassium and magnesium have direct effects on bone cells." People who consume a lot of highly processed foods often lack adequate amounts of potassium and magnesium. Good sources of potassiuminclude fruits and vegetables such as bananas, oranges, tomatoes, potatoes, broccoli and melon...New Study Finds Blacks Face 38 Percent Higher Stroke Risk
...w data on the incidence of the disease, which is a direct measureof their risk of getting it. "Differences between whites and blacks may result from obesity or dietor factors we haven't identified yet." A report on the research appears in the just-published April issue ofthe journal Stroke. ...Margin Width The Key To Control Of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Of The Breast
...edinto three groups by margin width (determined by direct management or ocularmicrometry): close or involved (less than 1 mm); intermediate (1 to less than 10mm) and wide (10 mm or more). "The fact that there were only three recurrences among 133 patients with 10 mmor greater margins makes it unlikely that ...Near-Sightedness In Children Linked To Light Exposure During Sleep Before Age Two
...that nighttime lighting during early childhood isa direct cause of myopia, and there are undoubtedly other risk factors. Still,it would seem advisable for infants and young children to sleep at night withoutartificial lighting in the bedroom until further research can evaluate all theimplications of our res...Immunex Advances CD40 Ligand To Phase II Clinical Trial In People With Metastatic Kidney Cancer
...es. It does this in twoways. The first way is by direct binding to its CD40 partner present on manytumor cell types generating a signal for the tumor cell to either stop growingor self destruct (apoptose). The second way is by stimulating specific immuneresponses to the tumor. Immunex plans to co...Retrospective Statistical Analysis Corroborates Early Results Of Randomized Breast Cancer Trials
...d treatmentinformation, can provide information to direct further inquiry, he said. "There are circumstances, in which 'non-randomized' comparisons can beinformative, and they can be even more informative when the sample sizes arelarge," Berry said. "These circumstances are present when assessing possibleb...